Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California while at the University of California and Stanford. But in May 1943, he joined the Los Alamos project as an "administrative aide," later became the project's historian, with access to its secrets. Hawkins also testified that another member of the project, Frank Oppenheimer. brother of Physicist J. Robert, had been a chairman of a California Communist cell...
...Astin, an eminent physicist, took the stand and said that the "trace elements" were just impurities in the salts. But when Astin defended the bureau's findings on AD-X2, Committee Chairman Edward Thye, Minnesota's other Senator, pointed to a stack of orders for the battery dope. "That means more to me" he said firmly, "than the technical talk of a bunch of chemists ... If a good, hard-fisted businessman has used the product . . . and is fool enough to come up and place orders month after month, what is the matter with him? Or otherwise, what...
...Bourdillon, a nuclear physicist, and Charles Evans, a Liverpool physician, went up from Camp VIII toward the halfway mark-a rounded shoulder of rock known as the south summit. Stumbling and panting, they made it and vanished in the cloud beyond. No man had been higher and lived, but the pair lacked strength to go on. Back they came...
...Revolutionary Way. William Frauenglass, a Manhattan high school teacher, was called before the Senate Internal Security subcommittee last April to explain his Communist connections, and refused to answer on the ground that he might incriminate himself. Facing suspension from his job, Frauenglass wrote Physicist Einstein in Princeton, asking if he had been right in refusing to testify. Einstein replied, in a "letter which need not be considered confidential," that Frauenglass was right indeed...
Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, former chancellor of Washington University D.Sc...